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Monetate engineers who develop features for Merchandiser, part of our Agility Suite of products, work on a number of challenging problems related to recommendations algorithms. One challenge: Given a catalog of merchant products, auto-magically determine…

Last week, two of Monetate’s engineers, Mike Hand and Tom Chandler, attended EmpireJS, a one-day Javascript conference held in Manhattan. There were more than 20 sessions, held in two parallel tracks throughout the day. Talks…

The recent Hadoop World 2011 conference had more than 1,400 attendees among which were two engineers from Monetate. Attendees came from companies large and small and it seemed as if all were grappling with an…

Author : Ram Parthasarathy Monetate had a good representation at this year's Philly Barcamp which happened yesterday at the Wharton Business school. 7 members from our engineering team attended the different sessions ranging from internet…

There is no doubt that many of us spent countless hours during our childhood trying to save the princess in Super Mario or finishing with a TKO in the harder levels in Punch-Out. Thanks to Kris Molendyke and…

The Semptember Philly PUG meeting was at Monetate last night. We had a packed house and enjoyed talks by Pat O’Brien, Karl Shouler, Hunter Blanks, and Nick Canzoneri. Thanks to everyone who came and especailly to…

Author: Hunter Blanks Many thanks to Trevor Lalish-Menagh and the guys at Comcast for kicking off the first meeting of Functional Fall tonight up on the 45th floor of the Comcast center! At least thirty…

Author: Hunter Blanks The prior post announced some early spot instance support for boto’s EMR library, and it’s my pleasure in the current one to announce what would appear to be full support for spot…

Author: Hunter Blanks Last week, Amazon announced new support for using spot instances with Elastic MapReduce — a pretty exciting thing, when you consider that EC2 spot instances typically run for less than half the…